celebrated Martin Luther nailing The 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Church in protest of John Tetzel’s selling indulgences

May be more myth than fact, but still is cool to celebrate...if you are not Catholic...then probably don’t celebrate it

Nov 1 - All Saints Day- traditionally in honor of May and the Martyrs

Was May 13 609 - too close to the Pagan holiday the Feast of Lemures

Pope Gregory III moved it to Nov 1 (731-741)

Too close to the Celtic festival of Samhain - so Celtic churches celebrated on April 20

835 - established Nov 1 as All Saints Day for everyone

Reformation retained it as a commemoration of the dead

All Souls Day - to commemorate those that have died over the last year

Protestant church merged it with All Saints Day

Healthy Families, Healthy Planet A project funded by a grant of the United Nations Foundation and housed in the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society. The mission of HFHP is to educate, inspire, and empower faith leaders to take on maternal health and family planning as advocacy issues in their local congregations or communities.

“While nothing of the private life of Zacchaeus is revealed in teh story, this much we know on principle: no one can be privately righteous while participating in and profiting from a program that robs and crushes other persons.” (Interpretation: Luke, 219)

Zacchaeus has good qualities, but as long as he participates in an unjust system that robs others, he cannot be considered righteous.

The transformation Zaccheaus experiences is not an effort to “buy back his salvation.” Rather, it is evidence of the radical power of grace.

The transformation Zaccheaus experiences is evidence of “fruit,” teaching us that following Jesus has a practical implication for the way we live our life.

“His salvation, therefore, has personal, domestic, social, and economic dimensions… Luke would object to confining the word [saved] to a condition of the soul. The whole of life is affected by Jesus’ ministry, a foretaste of the complete reign of God.” (Interpretation: Luke, 220)

Acknowledges that the Greek is present tense and there is no indication of repentance other than v. 8b:

“Zacchaeus is not protesting his customary action to the disbelieving crowd. Instead he is freely declaring his resolve to make amends for his past wrongs as a result of the honor Jesus has bestowed on him.” (New Interpreter's Bible Commentary, vol. 9, p.358)